It’s been around for so long and become such an overused cliché, that it’s perhaps hard to say what ’team-building’ is anymore.

People have so many different ideas, it can be difficult to pin-down exactly what companies want when they come to us.

Since Koh Samui is a boutique destination with small hotels and limited capacity flights, we are normally involved with either executive management groups of around 40 people from regional offices in Asia, or possibly a larger group from head office.

When you’re dealing with executives from Toshiba who have come to Samui for three days for their incentive trip and conference, the last thing they need is someone teaching them about situational leadership styles. In fact they should probably be teaching us.

They want the chance to relax, have fun after their meeting in the morning, and to interact with each other in a way other than as regional managers. They probably don’t want an academic debriefing on how to apply communication skills to the work place, therefore moving away from such ’business skills’ to an out-and-out adventure program such as desert island survival or a community outreach project may be ideal.